RALEIGH, N.C.,
VOL. 48, NO. 44
THURSDAY,
MAY 4.1989
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Jaiz Hits Put Kirk Whalum
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Are Black Athletes Better
Than Whites On The Field?
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Garner Road YMCA Recalls
Community Contributions
BY ALLIE M. PEEBLES
Contributing Writer
When the Garner Road Family YM
CA held its annual membership din
nar recently, the speaker was Dr.
George C. Debnam, local physician.
IMS awards banquet was held at the
Martin Luther King Student Union,
sad Dr. Wiley M. Davis served as
chairman.
The theme of the banquet was “Ser
ving the Heart of the Community.’’
Dr. Debnam affirmed the fact that
the YMCA does exactly that. Its main
objective is to aid in the development
of Christian standards. In the attain
ment of this goal, the YMCA seeks to
promote the physical, mental and
spiritual development of the Raleigh
community. It also seeks to em
phasize reverence for God, respon
sibility for the common goal, respect
for personality and the application of
the Golden rule in human relation
ships, he said.
Debnam traced the history of the
YMCA to July 16,1946, when it opened
its doors at 600 S. Bloodworth St. in a
building which was formerly the
school for the blind and deaf. Some of
Raleigh’s outstanding black leaders
saw a need for a meeting place and
began working hard to acquire the
property.
Debnam stated that the first board
of directors was composed of the
following persons: M.W. Akins, Dr.
O.S. Bullock, F.J. Carnage, J.W.
Eaton, C.R. Frazier, Dr. J.T. Hamlin,
Dr. Nelson H. Harris, C.A. Haywood,
J.R. High, Dr. P.H. Johnson, Rev.
C.R. Kearns, D.H. Keck, Dr. L.E. Mc
Cauley, Dr. E.H. McClenny, G.F.
Newell, Dr. W.R. Pettiford, Ernest
Raiford, D.H. Reid, R.H. Toole, and
Dr. Maurice Watts. Dr. Nelson Harris
and Dr. P.H. Johnson are the only two
charter members that still survive.
In 1946, the YMCA was a member
of the Community Chest; however,
today the name has been changed to
the United Way. Ernest Raiford serv
(See YMCA, P. 2)
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NEWS BRIEFS
SAFETY COUNCIL
AWARDS
The Wake County Farm
Bureau Women’s Committee and
the Telephone Pioneers of
America have won top safety
awards from the North Carolina
Bafoty Council. The awards were
presented April 21 during the
Safety Council’s annual awards
Incheon at the McKimmon
Cnter on the North Carolina
State University campus. The
Farm Bureau Women's Commit
tee was honored for their farm
victim extrication program- The
program included a classroom
netting and eight training sta
ttaas. Mere than So participants
VMVCertlfled. <■
ADVOCATE OF YEAR
Ms. Alice M. Smith, treasurer
and manager of College Heights
Credit Union in Fayetteville, is
the North Carolina 1980 Financial
Services Advocate of the year.
Nominated by the Fayetteville
Minority Business Development
Center, Ms. Smith works with
small and minority-owned
buslneaes in Cumberland County.
The credit union supports small
businesses through business
loans, bill consolidation, pur
chases, contracts, and adver
tisements.
FEDERAL TRUTH IN
MILEAGE ACT
All motor vehicles sold in North
Carolina must be accompanied
bjr an Odometer Disclosure State
ment signed by both seller and
buyer showing the vehicle’s
recorded mileage and certifying
whether the mileage displayed on
the odometer is or Is not the vehi
cle’s actual mileage. Vehicle
asadels that are 10 years old or
alder and those having a gross
vehicle weight rating of more
than 10,000 pounds are exempt
bum the new law. Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles William S.
Hiatt, said that the law Is intend
ed to reduce the possibility of
odometer fraud by establishing a
mechanical mileage record that
eaa he traced to a vehicle’s
(See NEWS BRIEFS, P. 2)
Dismal Hiring Record .
National Museum Rapped
Told Time
‘To Clean
Up Act”
BY CHESTER A. HIGGINS, SR.
NNPA Newt Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The
Smithsonian Institution, the world’s
largest museum, but with a dismal
record in terms of hiring blacks and
other minorities at senior level
management, curatorial and
research positions, was bluntly told
by Rep. Cardisa Collins (D-I1U that it
is time to clean up its act.
Collins chairs the House
Government Activities and Transpor
tation Subcommittee of the Govern
ment Operations Committee. She was
Joined in admonishing Robert McCor
mick Adams, Smithsonian secretary
who testified before her panel, by
House Government Operations Chair
man John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.).
Said Ms. Collins, “The Smithso
nian’s Equal Opportunity Reports
paint a dismal picture, with the vast
bastion of minorities trapped in posi
tions that have the least amount of
security, the lowest amount of pay
and limited opportunities for ad
vancement.” In addition, she said,
minorities are virtually excluded
from many of the Smithsonian com
munities and councils.
The Smithsonian Institution was
created by an act of Congress in 1846
to carry out the terms of the will of
James Smithson, of England, who be
queathed his entire estate in 1886 to
(See SMITHSONIAN, P. 2)
ABORTION AND GENOCDE—Washington, 0. C. and Mw ***•» and wore Mca demonstrations haM throughout the
Supreme Court huMog was tto scene of raMos In support country. Supporters shnutad "shorten hides genocide”
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wore on the eve of the Court's review of a Missouri Idlr on TaSh SaMr-Calloway)
Bhopal Victim Touring Shiloh On
Solidarity Mission For Justice
it was tne worm s worst industrial
disaster and more than 4,000 people
were killed and more than 200,000 af
fected by the accident at the Union
Carbide plant in Bhopal, India The
accident spewed more than 4,000 tons
of poison gas into the air and five
years after this catastrophe, what
has been the compensation for the
suiienng r g
The Indian court ordered an early c
payment by Union Carbide of $190 t
million and stipulated that such a
payment would not poison the case t
against Union Carbide. The <
500,000-odd persons asking damages j
have been told that they must wait six i
months to two years for the Indian !
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Pioneer Black Doctor Honored As
Myth Surrounding Death Renounced
HAW RIVER (AP)—For more than
three decades, the story about the
death of Dr. Charles Drew went like
.this:
Drew, a pioneer in blood research
and a teacher of black surgeons, was
allowed ot bleed to death in i960
because doctors at the all-white
hospital in Burlington refused to treat
blacks.
It’s a lie that a national medical
group wants to debunk for good.
About SO members of the Society of
Black Academic Surgeons gathered
recently at the place where Drew was
fatally injured in a car crash April l,
1950, on N.C. 49, two miles north of
Haw River. They laid a wreath at a
six-foot monument erected in 1996 at
the scene of Drew’s accident.
“It’s in the public interest to break
this myth,” said Dr. Onye Akwari, a
surgery professor at Duke University
Medical School and coordinator of a
society seminar at Duke. "Historical
truth should be very clearly
documented. It’s especially impor
tant for young people to know the
truth.”
The false story of Drew’s death
began shortly after the accident. No
one knows exactly how it started, ac
cording to historian Charles E.
Wynes of the University of Georgia.
Wynes has written a book, “Charles
Richard Drew: The Man and the
Myth,” published last year.
But the story about the Southern
hospital refusing to give Drew ade
quate treatment wound up in history
books, newspapers, magazines, an
episode of the “MASH" television
series and countless conversations.
“The entire nation, and not Just the
South,” Wynes wrote, “was no
stranger to stores about how blacks
had been turned away from hospitals
(See PIONEER, P.«)
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f the claims. Many simply won’t live
hat long.
Some Bhopal survivors are telling
heir story to American workers and
ommunities at risk and demanding
ustice for what they call corporate
ecklessness as well as uncompen
ated injured victims from industrial
tazards, poisoned environments, and
leaths.
In North Carolina the delegation
vill visit Shiloh, Robeson County and
ftocky Mount, areas fighting effects
>f industrial hazards.
These survivors of the gas leak inci
lent in Bhopal will visit North
Carolina May 4-6 as part of a month
long tour to meet with American
workers and environmentally at-risk
communities. Thev have come to the
United States to appeal for justice to
Union Carbide shareholders and to
the American public at large.
The victims are appealing the $470
million settlement between Union
Carbide and the Indian government
that pre-empted a court trial and
dropped all criminal charges, calling
it a “sell-out.” The continue to seek
(See VICTIMS, P. 2)
Going Wilding:
A Deadly Ritual
For Black Males
BY DR. LENORA FULANI
Special To The CAROLINIAN
An Analyita
The racial hatred that spews forth
from every institution is the fuel that
drives America—backward.
Everywhere we hear that black peo
ple, in particular young African
American men, are less-than-human
savages.
Listen to what is being said about
Harlem teenagers who are being
questioned regarding the rape and
beating of the woman jogger in New
York City’s Central Park last week.
“I don’t know if it was out of control
for these types of kids,” said the chief
prosecutor for the Family Court Divi
sion of the city’s Law Department. “I
think that kids like this," he said,
"given what I would call their
predatory nature, are people who,
given the chance, would do something
like this again. There really isn’t any
way to control them—at least we
liaven’t found it in the juvenile justice
system.”
Something very terrible happened
in Central Park that night. But we
cannot let the sensationalizing
salesmanship of the mass media and
the pious hypocrisy of the politicians
trick us into using our outrage at the
de-humanization of this young
woman as an excuse to dehumanize
other human beings who—because
they are black—are violated and
brutalized every day of their lives.
This is not meant to condone in any
way what happened on that terrible,
ugly night. But if we want to do
something about it, we need to
understand how it is that
people—young people like your
children, like my children—come to
prey on other people. How is it that
we as a society, this country called
America, is producing young people
who go “wilding”? Who brutalize and
terrorize to get their kicks? Or to pro
ve their manhood?
I don’t believe that we can begin to
address those questions until we
understand that it is not only young
black men who go wilding. This is a
wilding society. And wilding is a
respectable activity—when it is con
ducted by the white corporate owners
of America. From Vietnam to
(See GOING WILDING, P. 2)
Unique American Program
Aide Promotes Extension Services
Ms. Mamie Richardson works with
the North Carolina Agricultural Ex
tension Service as a program aide in
the Expanded Food and Nutrition
Educational Program. In her capaci
ty as a program aide, Bis. Richardson
works with families on a one-to-one
basis and in group settings.
Ms. Mamie Pops, parent involve
ment coordinator for Wake, Orange
and Chatham Counties Head Start,
has this to say of Ms. Richardson’s
work with Head Start parents at the
Holly Springs Head Start Center:
“Ms. Richardson has been in
strumental in teaching the parents of
our Head Start program economical
food purchasing habits as well as the
importance of a nutritious diet for
helping others through extension, Ms.
Richardson is involved in numerous
community activities, incoming at.
Augusta Freewill Baptist Church and
the Fuquay-Varina Consolidated
Alumni Association. Most recently
she was honored at the annual ban
quet of the Strength Hng the Black
Family Organisation as the single
parent of the year.
Ms. Richardson follows in the
footsteps of her late sister, Ms. Alice
Janes, who was one of the original
EFNEP aides in 1989, when the pro
gram began in Wake County. EFNEP
is funded by the federal government
and administered statewide by the
North Carolina Agricultural Exten
sion Service. It is charged to help
young families with limited
resources, especially those with
young children, to acquire
knowledge, skills, altitudes, and
changed behavior necessary to
achieve adequate diets in normal
nutrition.
The Agricultural Extension Service
is celebrating its 75th Anniversary
this year. This uniquely American in
stitution was begun on May 8, 1M4
when the U.S. Congress passed the
Smith-Lever Act. In 75 years the
Agricultural Extension Service has
become the envy of virtually every
nation on earth.
The Wake County extension staff is
planning activities to help celebrate
the anniversary locally. “Monday,
May 8, is one big day,’’ says Victor B.
Lynn, county extension director. The
public is invited from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
to enjoy exhibits, refreshments,
entertainment, short presentations,
and a plant clinic in the extension of
fice complex at 4001 Carya Drive
which is in the Wake County Office
Park at the intersection of Poole
Road and the deltline.